Welty Eudora Alice (16 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (xv) 345 pp. Book Club original - Quarter-bound in black cloth on black boards; red endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Editor's Foreword; Montralde by John Cheever; The Hitch Hikers by Eudora Welty; Success or Failure by T. H. White; How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State - It was Easy by Alice Walker; The Hotel of the Idle Moon by William Trevor; Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope; The Fat Man by Isak Dinesen; Mr Loveday's Little Outing by Evelyn Waugh; TheJobone Murders by Paul Theroux; A Journey by Edith Wharton; Miss Forbes's Summer of Happiness by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; In Vino Veritas by A. A. Milne; The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story by Virginia Woolf; By a Person Unknown by Naguib Mahfou; The Macbeth Murder Mystery by James Thurber; A Double Tragedy: An Actor's Story by Louisa May Alcott; Un Crime Maternel by Fay Weldon; Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling; The Walker by Patrick O'Brian; Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer; Monk by William Faulkner; My Maiden Brief by W. S. Gilbert; An Act of Vengeance by Isabel Allende; and The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark. Size: 8vo. Book.

Third edition, second printing (per publisher's code upon copyright page). xxiv, 289 pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 13cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; minor soiling to white rear panel; light scuffing at spine and flap fold ends. Black cloth minimally decorated with gilt stamping to spine. A still fairly crisp near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. With an Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter. A CURTAIN OF GREEN was Eudira Welty's first published book and features seventeen short stories including such classics as "Petrified Man," "Why I Live at the P.O.," "Death of a Traveling Salesman," and "A Worn Path." {Bibliographical reference: #A2:3.2 in Noel Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK.}.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xiv, 768 pp. LCC: 921353.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). [12], 104 pages. Hardcover; H 23.75cm x L 15.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; scuffing and slight wear at spine and flap fold ends; spine panel without the usual color fading; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Dark gray cloth spine and light gray cloth boards with vibrant gilt stamping; touch of soiling at front board's lower left. With frontispiece and b/w photographs. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. The first printing of this book is now rather uncommon. Bibliographical reference: Noel Polk EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK - #A31. {LitShelf-#9} ISBN 0674639251.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). [6], 185 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 13.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Blue cloth; a few spots of light discoloration and faint staining; spine ends lightly bumped; usual color fading to spine's purple stripe; minor flaking to front board's purple stripe which still retains original color; white lettering upon spine and front board remains bright. Light green top edge; some toning and foxing to fore-edge; endpapers toned. Top corners of pages 113-114 creased from past fold-down. Interior pages remain quite clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM was Welty's second book and first novel. Please refer to #A3:1 in Noel Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Important reference wirk.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite descending number line upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [12], 105 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; short tears at spine head; rear flap fold head nicked; front flap's top corner is price-clipped with crease to bottom corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Brownish gray cloth spine with gilt stamped lettering, light gray cloth boards. With frontispiece and b/w photographs. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with Welty's ink signature upon the title page. Bibliographical reference: #A31 in Noel Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK. {LitShelf-#7} ISBN 0674639251.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Losing Battles is the last novel written by Eudora Welty. It was released on April 13, 1970. This copy, a first edition and printing in the RH numbering is in excellent condition with only a slight bump to the front corner as the only issue with a fine, price-intact,$7.95 dustjacket in clear mylar covering. The book is inscribed, signed by Welty on the front end page to David Grossblatt, a rare book dealer. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Kirkus Reviews indicated Welty's "famous tales of Southern small-town life have only become more impressive with time," concluding that The Collected Stories are "a welcome gathering of an important writer's short fiction?some of which is her very best work of all".This book is a National Book Award winner. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. This copy is in fine condition, with the HBJ printing letters B C D E with no negative issues as is the $17.50 price-intact dustjacket which is in clear mylar covering. It is simply signed by Welty on the half title page. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition, limited to 200 hand-numbered copies signed by the contributors, this being #175. Green silk cloth boards, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, in publisher's cloth slipcase, no dust jacket, as issued. Published on the occasion of Welty's 90th birthday. Signed by the editor and each of the 22 contributors on 6 specially inserted leaves in the back (before the colophon): Richard Bausch, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Tony Early, Clyde Edgerton, George Garrett, Ellen Gilchrist, Anthony Grooms, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Greg Johnson, William Maxwell, Willie Morris, Alice Munro, Daniele Pitavy-Souques, Reynolds Price, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Lee Smith, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, and Richard Wilbur. Faint toning to spine, else fine in fine slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

First edition (as stated). [10], 244 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket front and rear panels mildly soiled but still with good color to the David Stone Martin illustration, obtrusively strong toning to spine panel with lettering rubbed to where some is illegible and pictorial coloration quite dulled, chipping at spine ends and at front panel's top left corner, long tear along spine fold with front panel, some abrasion along flap folds with ends nicked plus tearing and small loss at front panel's bottom right, some toning at flap edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Purplish-red cloth spine with minor loss at frayed head, spine's gilt stamping dulled but legible; green paper boards, front board's gilt stamped vignette remains fairly bright, slender shelf abrasion along bottom board edges and at top corners. Some toning to edges and endpapers; novelist Nancy Hallinan's ink signature at top of front free endpaper recto; a few scattered instances of pencil underlining found amongst text leaves which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. A good+ copy in only a fair dust jacket. Laid-in a front endpapers is a six-leaf biographical essay regarding Welty by Claudia Roth Pierpont taken from the October 5, 1998 issue of The New Yorker. Welty's sixth book, THE GOLDEN APPLES, features a collection of interrelated short stories chronicling the people and events of the fictional town of Morgana, Mississippi. Please refer to #A7 in Noel Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK. An occasional Welty correspondent, Nancy Hallinan (1921-2014) authored the critically acclaimed novels "Rough Winds of May" (1955), "A Voice from the Wings" (1965), and "Night Swimmers" (1976) as well as the 1980 O'Henry award winning short story "Women in a Roman Courtyard." Her papers are held by Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. {LitShelf #4}.

SIGNED BY EUDORA WELTY. Issued as part of a first edition limited to a total of 476 copies, this being one of the 400 unnumbered copies bound in French marbled paper boards. 20, [2], [1] pages. Hardcover: H 25.75cm x L 16.25cm. Touch of scuffing and slight bumping at spine ends and board corners. Pages are bright and clean. A very good+ copy with Welty's ink signature on the rear limitation page. {Bibliographical reference: #A28 in Noel Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK.}.

Fourth printing (per Harcourt's "d" letter code) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [6], 247 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some creasing at edges; shallow wear at spine and flap fold ends; closed tear at rear panel's upper right; top corner of front flap is price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Light beige cloth. Dark purple top edge. Author's blue ink signature "Eudora Welty" upon the title page; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket. Bibliographer Noel Polk cites this fourth printing as being published on March 1, 1961 (despite Harcourt's February 1961 date code upon copyright page) whereas the true first printing was published in April 1946. Please refer to #A5:1.4 in Polk's EUDORA WELTY; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HER WORK. {WeltyShelf_#2}.

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for former upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [4], 247 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed with foxing and soiling; chipping at spine and flap fold ends as well as at top of rear panel; tears and creasing at edges; toned residue from removed sticker at rear panel's upper left; front flap retains publisher's original printed price ($2.75); dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Light beige cloth; spine ends bumped with short tear (.75cm) at head; bumping at rear board's top right; slight fraying to board corners. Dark purple top edge; toning and some foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge with latter also having slender light brown stain which fractionally affects some leaves at margins. Illustrated endpapers toned/foxed; light foxing to several initial and rear leaves; half-title leaf removed with slender stub between ffep and title leaf evidencing its loss; pages 137-146 have shallow creases at their top fore-edge corners; interior text pages overall remain clean. Binding is firm. Author's two-line ink inscription "With good wishes | Eudora Welty" upon the title page written in her distinctive script. {WeltyShelf_#3}.

1st printing (Polk AD1, C23). [4] pp. Welty's Introduction, pp. 2-3. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" Small pen marking to front top right corner of wrapper, extremely light wear. Otherwise, a Near Fine copy. Lime green pictorial printed paper wrappers. Stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.